A terrorist attack in Melbourne,Australia, left one person dead and two others wounded before the suspect was himself shot dead by police, and BBC News is reporting. The Islamic State (ISIS) is claiming responsibility,saying that one of its fighters” carried out the attack.
At approximately 4:20 p.m. Melbourne time on Friday (12:20 a.m. Eastern Time), authorities say that the assailant, and whose name has not been released as of this writing,set a car on fire and then drove it into a storefront as it was engulfed in flames. Police would later say that the car was packed with barbecue-grill propane tanks – tanks which didn’t explode.
As drivers and passengers around the area fled their cars on the city’s busy Bourke Street just as evening rush hour was starting to pick up, the assailant started randomly stabbing people, and according to Melbourne Police Superintendent David Clayton.
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Source: inquisitr.com